The goal of the DNA Project is the creation of DNA profiles for established Austin-Austen lines and coordination of Y-Chromosome DNA test results to create a Profiles Table. We are looking for male Austins, with documented family lines, to join the project. Researchers may then compare their own Y-DNA numbers to those in the table to determine a possible connection to one of those families. As of February 2012 there are 245 Austins in the project.
You can join this project even if you were not tested by Family Tree DNA, but by another testing service. We encourage 37 marker, 67 marker or 111 marker testing and upgrades can be made to existing tests.
FTDNA runs sales on test kits and upgrades several times a year. For more information on the project, or to be notified when these FTDNA sales are announced, please contact the
Art Sikes, or the
Carol R. Austin.
Coordinating the collection of 37 and 67 marker Y-DNA test results for these
and other Austin-Austen lines:
John Austin ba.1692 of
Southside Virginia
William Austin bc.1813 New
York
William Austin bc.1750 of
NorthCarolina
James J. Austin bc.1822 Cobb,
Georgia
William Austin b.1793 of
Connecticut
William Austin bc.1700
Ireland of Virginia
Thomas Austin b.1767 of
Sharpsburg, Maryland
John Austin bc.1647 of New
Haven CT
Thomas Austin b.1727 of
Barbados
John Calhoun Austin b.1831 of
Tennessee
Samuel Austin b. say 1640 of Boston, Massachusetts
William Benjamin Austin
b.1827 ofArkansas
Richard Austin bc.1598 of
Charlestown, Mass.
William Austin bc.1654 of
Maryland
Robert Austin b. say 1635 of Kingstown,
Rhode Island
